Email: My general thoughts about the first public draft of WCAG 3.0

[jspellman]

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I have to say that I'm quite pleased with the first draft. I'm not an
expert about WCAG 2.X but I'm quite familiarised with it so all the
announced changes generated so many doubts. Some of the doubts vanished
once I read all the draft and new questions appeared. Many of them will be
solved in future drafts (silver and gold levels).

I want to express my concern about the subjectiveness in the outcome
rating. Section 2.2.2 Outcome rating, second paragraph: "... the tester can
make an informed judgment about the outcome rating". I can understand that
to foresee all the possible situations and to generate objective tests and
instructions is not feasible but it is necessary to avoid any options to
introduce subjectiveness that potentially can bias the results.

I'm impressed with the change in the text contrast guideline. Finally, the
Contrast Sensitivity Function makes its way into the WCAG. As a
specialist on the human visual system, I'm really satisfied with this
improvement and I hope to see more inputs from vision sciences to web
accessibility.

Congratulations on all this hard work.

Vicent Sanchis Jurado
PhD in Optometry and Vision Sciences

[jspellman]

Vicent, thank you for your comment. Project members are working on your comment. You may see discussion in the comment thread and we may ask for additional information as we work on it. We will mark the official response when we are finished and close the issue.

[ChrisLoiselle]

@jspellman This appears to be more outcome specific to the WCAG 3.0 methodology.. This seems to be more specific to editors than to Visual Contrast of Text. I've marked this as ready for survey, as it pertains to Visual Contrast of Text sub group.

[jspellman]

@ChrisLoiselle, this has two topics. I wanted you to see the laud of visual contrast, but we have to put it with the editorial pile on scoring. That's not ready for survey.